Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sebastian Candiago, Klara Johanna Winkler, Valentina Giombini, Carlo Giupponi, Lukas Egarter Vigl
Summary: This article systematically reviews literature on vineyard landscapes to identify how ecosystem conditions and services have been studied. The results show a lack of studies considering multiple ecosystem conditions and services, especially cultural services. Additionally, there is a lack of integrative studies exploring the relationships among ecosystem condition, ecosystem services, and climate change. Future research should adopt multidisciplinary, integrative, and comprehensive approaches to better understand vineyard socio-ecological systems under climate change.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Alis-Luciana Petrescu Bakis, Irina Macovei, Paulo Barros, Carla Gomes, Diogo Carvalho, Joao Alexandre Cabral, Paulo Travassos, Laura Torres, Jose Aranha, Liviu-Daniel Galatchi, Mario Santos
Summary: The study introduces an innovative hybrid framework to predict biodiversity indicators response to farm management options. Through a case study, it demonstrates the significance of selected framework and indicators for biodiversity assessments in vineyard landscapes.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2021)
Article
Soil Science
Raimundo Jimenez-Ballesta, Sandra Bravo, Jose A. Amoros, Caridad Perez-de-los-Reyes, Jesus Garcia-Pradas, Monica Sanchez, Francisco J. Garcia-Navarro
Summary: La Mancha in Central Spain is known as one of the largest vineyard regions in the world, with Valdepenas being a representative PDO in the area. After studying 90 soil profiles, it was found that the main soil types in Valdepenas are Alfisols, Inceptisols, and Entisols, with a significant proportion of Calcisols. The accumulation of carbonate, presence of red soils, and calcic or petrocalcic horizons play a crucial role in the pedodiversity of the region, highlighting the importance of soil nature for quality viticultural production.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Emilia B. Hyland, John E. Quinn
Summary: Protected areas have evolved to include support for human communities, with UNESCO World Heritage Sites as successful examples. A study found a conservation spillover effect within 1 km of WHS boundaries, with lower human impact and higher forest landscape integrity. Understanding the relationship between WHS and surrounding landscape is crucial in managing protected areas effectively.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Steven P. Cohen, Lene Vase, William M. Hooten
Summary: Chronic pain is a significant burden on individuals and economies, requiring comprehensive treatment and psychological support. Pain can be classified into different types and may overlap, with treatment strategies needing to be tailored to individual circumstances.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
James J. Tronolone, Abhishek Jain
Summary: Tissue engineered grafts have potential for regenerative medicine but face challenges with nutrient perfusion. Vascularization is a key focus, with microphysiological systems as testing platforms to improve viability.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Juan A. Garcia-Esparza
Summary: This paper examines the exclusion of alternative forms of culture in World Heritage cities and towns in Spain through theoretical analysis of visual perception, review of UNESCO framework and criteria, exploration of minor concepts related to culture and heritage, overview of social value appraisal in the heritage realm, Historic Urban Landscape approach, and analysis of policy issues. The analysis highlights the clash between outdated policies and contemporary methods in heritage-making.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Agisilaos Chaldogeridis, Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos
Summary: Computerized Cognitive Training (CCT) programs have been widely used to enhance cognitive functionalities, especially Working Memory (WM). Previous studies have mainly focused on the efficacy of CCT, with limited research on their potential in increasing motivation and adherence. A systematic review identified conflict, feedback, difficulty adjustment, action points, and levels as the most commonly used game elements (GE) in WM training, while GEs associated with competition and cooperation were not preferred.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Editorial Material
Nutrition & Dietetics
Julian Wolfson, Ashwini Venkatasubramaniam
Summary: The use of most interventions is primarily supported by evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs), but there may be substantial differences in the delivery of interventions in clinical practice compared to these foundational RCTs. With the increasing availability of electronic health data, it is now possible to study the real-world effectiveness of a wide range of interventions. However, real-world intervention effectiveness studies using electronic health data face challenges such as data quality, selection bias, confounding by indication, and lack of generalizability. In this article, we discuss the barriers to generating high-quality evidence from real-world intervention effectiveness studies and suggest statistical best practices to address these challenges.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION
(2023)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Stavros Gennitsaris, Miguel Castro Oliveira, George Vris, Antonis Bofilios, Theodora Ntinou, Ana Rita Frutuoso, Catarina Queiroga, John Giannatsis, Stella Sofianopoulou, Vassilis Dedoussis
Summary: Energy efficiency plays a crucial role in achieving the ambitious climate targets of the European Union. Despite their individual low energy consumption, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) contribute significantly to overall energy consumption due to their large numbers globally. This paper reviews the energy efficiency and energy footprint management of SMEs, highlighting their potential for promoting climate change mitigation and sustainable development.
Article
Environmental Studies
Bram Kin, Heleen Buldeo Rai, Laetitia Dablanc, Hans Quak
Summary: Cities around the world are reconsidering their transportation policies for the sake of environment and quality of life. The spatial impact of mobility is being scrutinized to minimize externalities caused by limited space in cities. Similarly to passenger transport, goods transport is also expected to become more efficient and emission-free. To achieve this, logistics sector requires space in urban areas for unloading, cross-docking, consolidation and storage of goods closer to their destinations. This approach, called 'proximity logistics', contradicts with the historical outward migration pattern of logistics facilities. By implementing policies and urban planning, cities can support the (re)integration of logistics facilities in urban areas, facilitating the shift towards an efficient urban logistics system. Unfortunately, logistics is often overlooked in city policies, resulting in limited knowledge on how to approach this (re)integration. In this study, we compare Rotterdam and Paris as two pioneering cities in advancing urban logistics policies and share best practices on how to address the integration of urban logistics facilities for cities.
EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Till Bruckner, Florence Rodgers, Lea Styrmisdottir, Sarai Keestra
Summary: This study reveals that many European research funders' policies and monitoring measures to reduce research waste and publication bias in clinical trials do not meet WHO best practice benchmarks. There is a need for improvement in these areas.
Article
Soil Science
Adrian Unc, Gil Eshel, George A. Unc, Tirza Doniger, Chen Sherman, Mark Leikin, Yosef Steinberger
Summary: Conventional, sustainable, or organic farming practices have distinct effects on soil fertility and health, with organic and conventional vineyard management showing the most significant impact on abiotic parameters, bacterial and fungal communities. Sustainable management leads to soil microbial communities most similar to natural conditions, and fungal diversity is better than bacterial diversity at discriminating between different management types.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Daniel Chico, Markus Pahlow, Barbara A. Willaarts, Paulo Sinisgalli, Alberto Garrido
Summary: Management practices reputed to be the best are being introduced widely in the agricultural sector. We propose an integrated assessment that includes two indicators in water footprint sustainability assessment: water apparent productivity and ecosystem services value, thereby considering the trade-offs in water provisioning and erosion potential. The approach was tested in Mogi-Guacu Pardo (Brazil), a basin that has been subjected to intensive land-use changes through the expansion of sugarcane plantations.
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Maria C. Porcal-Gonzalo
Summary: This study critically examines the nomination processes of World Heritage vineyard landscapes and compares nine specific vineyard cultural landscapes. It provides insights into the key issues of cultural heritage protection.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HERITAGE STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Yahav Avigal, William Wong, Mark Presten, Mark Theis, Shrey Aeron, Anna Deza, Satvik Sharma, Rishi Parikh, Sebastian Oehme, Stefano Carpin, Joshua H. Viers, Stavros Vougioukas, Ken Goldberg
Summary: Polyculture farming has the potential to reduce pesticide and water usage while improving soil nutrient utilization. However, automating polyculture is more challenging than monoculture. To facilitate research, AlphaGardenSim is introduced as a simulator that can simulate inter-plant dynamics and growth in a greenhouse garden.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Anna M. Rallings, Britne Clifton, Vicky Espinoza, Zhuo Hao, Wenjun Chen, Weili Duan, Qidong Peng, Pingping Luo, Joshua H. Viers
Summary: Regulated rivers are managed worldwide to meet human needs and reduce flood risks, but often fail to support ecological and hydrogeomorphic processes. Designing environmental flows is important for balancing ecosystem and human demands. By classifying river basins in China's Yangtze River, it is possible to improve basin management and prioritize environmental flow plans without localized data. This study can inform water resource management and sustainable development efforts as hydropower dams continue to increase globally.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Andre Zuanazzi Dornelles, Wiebren J. Boonstra, Izabela Delabre, J. Michael Denney, Richard J. Nunes, Anke Jentsch, Kimberly A. Nicholas, Matthias Schroeter, Ralf Seppelt, Josef Settele, Nancy Shackelford, Rachel J. Standish, Tom H. Oliver
Summary: Based on analysis of food systems data from 161 countries over 25 years, three distinct transformation archetypes were identified globally: rapidly expansionist, expansionist, and consolidative. Different agricultural structure changes and social-environmental outcomes were found across these archetypes, indicating unsustainable trajectories independent of productivity improvements.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sarah-Mae Nelson, Greg Ira, Adina M. Merenlender
Summary: Education alone is not enough to foster positive environmental behaviors. A combination of factors, including social integration, shared values, environmental identity, self-efficacy, and agency, is necessary. A study on an adult climate education and service course showed improvements in self-efficacy and motivation to take action.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sara Ullstrom, Johannes Stripple, Kimberly A. Nicholas
Summary: This paper explores how the rising problematization of flying in Sweden is gradually challenging the dominant meanings of holiday air travel, by introducing a new discourse of "Staying on the ground" that emphasizes the ethical issue and alternative options. This discourse is destabilizing the traditional culture of aeromobility and contesting the entrenched practices of high-carbon travel. The paper highlights the importance of social and cultural change in low-carbon transformations and offers insights into resisting carbon lock-in.
JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Ananth Kalyanaraman, Margaret Burnett, Alan Fern, Lav Khot, Joshua Viers
Summary: Addressing the challenges of 21st-century agriculture requires a shift in the role of AI technologies and the way we build agricultural AI systems. The AgAID Institute focuses on developing AI solutions for specialty crop agriculture, aiming to achieve climate-smart agriculture and integrate AI technology.
COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mahesh L. Maskey, Gustavo Facincani Dourado, Anna M. Rallings, David E. Rheinheimer, Josue Medellin-Azuara, Joshua H. Viers
Summary: Freshwater aquatic ecosystems are highly sensitive to flow regime alteration caused by anthropogenic activities, and this study evaluated the potential changes to the flow regime of the major tributaries of the San Joaquin River Basin in California due to climate change and reservoir operations. The study found that most indicators of streamflow dynamics had pronounced departures from baseline conditions under anticipated future climate conditions given existing reservoir operations. Additionally, the degree of flow regime alteration due to reservoir operations was found to be higher than that of climate change.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Leonardo J. Rodriguez, Olga A. Barbosa, Claudio Soto-Azat, Mario Alvarado-Rybak, Claudio Correa, Marco A. Mendez, Felipe N. Moreno-Gomez, Felipe E. Rabanal, Marcela A. Vidal, Nelson A. Velasquez, Leonardo D. Bacigalupe
Summary: Climate change negatively affects the evolutionary history of amphibians in the Chilean Biodiversity Hotspot, leading to potential extinctions and changes in distribution ranges, resulting in significant loss of evolutionary history. Protected Areas have low capacity in conserving the evolutionary history. Further research is necessary to improve decision-making processes, addressing amphibian extinction risks, inadequate protection by the PA system, and the loss of evolutionary history as a crucial aspect of biodiversity.
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2022)
Correction
Biodiversity Conservation
Leonardo J. Rodriguez, Olga A. Barbosa, Claudio Azat, Mario Alvarado-Rybak, Claudio Correa, Marco A. Mendez, Felipe N. Moreno-Gomez, Felipe E. Rabanal, Marcela A. Vidal, Nelson A. Velasquez, Leonardo D. Bacigalupe
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
America Paz Duran, Matt Smith, Becky Trippier, Karina Godoy, Michel Parra, Marcelo Lorca, Ignacio Casali, Gerardo Rodrigo Leal, Noelia Orts-Agullo, Arnaldo Rodriguez, Olga Barbosa
Summary: Incorporating ecosystem services into agricultural management decisions is a challenging but valuable opportunity for sustainable development. This article presents five challenges and their corresponding solutions when promoting the operationalization of ecosystem services within agribusiness.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Fisheries
Bobby J. Nakamoto, Carson A. Jeffres, Nicholas J. Corline, Mollie Ogaz, Christina J. Bradley, Joshua H. Viers, Marilyn L. Fogel
Summary: Using compound-specific isotope analysis, we determined the biosynthetic source of amino acids in fish from major tributaries to the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta in California. Our findings confirm the importance of algae in floodplain food webs in California's Central Valley, while also identifying other sources of amino acids contributing to fish.
JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
America P. Duran, Olga Barbosa, Kevin J. Gaston
Summary: Protected areas are crucial for safeguarding biodiversity and habitat integrity. Factors such as location, design, management strategy, and threats are key in determining their effectiveness. However, the combined and interactive effects of these factors are often overlooked. Understanding these effects is important for establishing and maintaining protected areas.
JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION
(2022)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
David E. Rheinheimer, Brian Tarroja, Anna M. Rallings, Ann D. Willis, Joshua H. Viers
Summary: Reservoir-based hydropower systems are being transformed under policy initiatives driven by increasing water and energy demand, the desire to reduce environmental impacts, and interacting effects of climate change. Different approaches and assumptions in hydropower representation in water and energy systems have been reviewed, with a focus on applications in California. These divergent modeling approaches may result in inadequate representations of each respective sector and vastly different planning outcomes, and better integration of water and energy models is needed.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH: INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Kelley Moyers, Robert Sabie, Emily Waring, Jorge Preciado, Colleen C. Naughton, Thomas Harmon, Mohammad Safeeq, Alfonso Torres-Rua, Alexander Fernald, Joshua H. Viers
Summary: Scarce water resources have led to the development of data-driven water budgets. This review examines the current state of data-driven water budgets of various spatiotemporal scales and identifies the reliance on satellite remote sensing data products for larger scales and ground-based monitoring for smaller scales. The use of both data sources enables the estimation of complete water budgets in areas with limited data availability. Standardized reporting protocols are needed for the alignment of water budget estimations across decision-makers at different spatiotemporal scales.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2023)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Timon McPhearson, Elizabeth M. Cook, Marta Berbes-Blazquez, Chingwen Cheng, Nancy B. Grimm, Erik Anderson, Olga Barbosa, David G. Chandler, Heeju Chang, Mikhail V. Chester, Daniel L. Childers, Stephen R. Elser, Niki Frantzeskaki, Zbigniew Grabowski, Peter Groffman, Rebecca L. Hale, David M. Iwaniec, Nadja Kabisch, Christopher Kennedy, Samuel A. Markolf, A. Marissa Matsler, Lauren E. McPhillips, Thaddeus R. Miller, Tischa A. Munoz-Erickson, Emma Rosi, Tiffany G. Troxler
Summary: As urbanization and climatic change accelerate, cities are turning to nature-based solutions to address multiple challenges. However, the complexity of social, ecological, and technological dimensions poses core challenges to mainstreaming these solutions.